Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda (21 December 1937-) was an American actress and political activist during and after the Vietnam War. She was born in New York City in 1937, the daughter of actor Henry Fonda, and she became a famous actress during the 1960s and became a sex symbol after the famous opening scene of Barbarella in 1968. In 1972, she controversially visited North Vietnam, was photographed sitting on an NVA anti-aircraft gun, and provoked outrage when she called several US pilots war criminals and said that they should be tried and executed. She was nicknamed "Hanoi Jane" and effectively blacklisted from Hollywood, but she released her first workout tape in 1982 and became famous for her exercise videos. Fonda also became a feminist activist and protested violence against women and the Iraq War, and, in 2005, she co-founded the Women's Media Center.